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Senator Brown: Protect Ohio by protecting the Clean Air Act

24

Jan

Senator Brown: Protect Ohio by protecting the Clean Air Act

By Naima Pearce

Senator Sherrod Brown (D- OH) has built a reputation of standing up for Ohioans and all Americans in the face of runaway corporate greed. But now, corporate polluters are pushing leaders like Senator Brown into gutting the Clean Air Act -- a political compromise that would cost lives and hamstring efforts to cut climate pollution nationwide.

New rules under the Clean Air Act (CAA)
are cutting climate pollution and boosting the clean energy economy in Ohio and across the nation. The fit perfectly with President Obama's recent opinion essay in the Wall Street Journal advocating for "common sense rules" that are necessary to protect the public. But dirty energy interests like coal and oil are fighting back. They spent more than $1 million attack ads just in Ohio during the last election, and they're ready to spend even more lobbying the new Congress. They'll stop at nothing to roll back common-sense Clean Air Act safeguards that have protected American families for 40 years.

We're not surprised by the latest push from industry to gut the Clean Air Act, but progressives like Senator Brown shouldn't help big polluters gut the CAA when clean energy businesses are creating thousands of new jobs in Ohio.

With the Clean Air Act's 40-year track record for saving lives and potential for job growth, it'd be a tragedy if Senator Brown helped put on the breaks on common-sense Clean Air Act rules. When people's lives and livelihoods are quite literally at stake, can Ohio really afford a delay on these rules? Can the nation?

Join 1Sky in calling Senator Sherrod Brown and tell him that Ohio needs a leader who will fight for clean renewable energy and defend the Clean Air Act for the health and welfare of our families and our economy.